Tuna Wranglers (2007)

Genre

documentary film

Country

Australia

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about Australian fishermen who capture wild southern bluefin tuna and keep them in pens to fatten for the Japanese market. It shows the crew diving into the pens to wrestle sharks that threaten their valuable stock.

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What happens

Tuna Wranglers (2007) is a documentary film produced by the makers of Deadliest Catch. It follows the exploits of the southern bluefin tuna industry in South Australia as it captures wild fish and transports them to grow-out pens where the fish are fattened up for sale to the Japanese market. It features footage of fishermen diving into tuna pens to wrestle sharks in order to protect their multimillion-dollar stock. The film was directed and produced by Mark Strickson for television and has also been released on DVD in several regions. Critics of the film noted the omission of the southern bluefin tuna's conservation status and the incongruous casting of an American narrator given the exclusively Australian cast and story. The film was produced by NHNZ for the Discovery Channel. A year after its release, the film was acknowledged by the southern bluefin tuna industry as having helped raise its public profile and boosted related tourism activity in the town of Port Lincoln. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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